Selected Songs (The Modern Jewish Experience)

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780405067570


Arranged for Voice with Piano Accompaniment by William Fichandler. Based on Notes by Joseph Rumshinsky Eliakum Zunser, Yiddish troubadour of the Old World and the New, composed his own ballads. Themes of Zunser"s songs ranged from the social to the prophetic, as this comprehensive collection documents. Readers will find music, Yiddish text, and English paraphrases of some fifty Zunser ballads, including The Flower," a song about Israel and memorable New World pieces, "The Golden Land," "The Greenhorn," "The Peddler," and "Columbus and Washington."